8vo. pp. [2], vi, 96. Disbound. Lacks title page. Signed “Blance F. [illegible]” on cover. “The conquering Jew: a vision of 1950” (1 p.) has been removed from volume. The item is available in MS 580 in Special Collections (Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University).

A reissue of the first English edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion’, the deadly formulation of the myth of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy to control all civilization. Based in part on 19th-century French rogue-and-spy fiction, and in part on the entirely non-partisan work of Maurice Joly, Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu; ou La politique de Machiavel au XIXe siècle (Brussels, 1864, see Bib# 4103105/Fr# 1494 in this collection), it first surfaced, in its present form, in Russian in 1903-05, becoming the bible of the pogroms, and spread to Europe and America in the 1920s in countless editions in every imaginable language, gaining admirers in Henry Ford (temporarily) and Hitler (unreservedly), as what Norman Cohn has called a ‘warrant for genocide’ (Warrant for genocide: the myth of the Jewish world conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1967).

After the original publisher of the first English edition of the Protocols, Eyre and Spottiswoode (see Bib# 4103103/Fr# 1492), decided to pull out, “The Britons” issued a second edition of these sheets in the same year.

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